Kagure Wamunyu: Shaking Up Kenya’s Multi-Million Greenback Building Trade 

Kenyan civil engineer and concrete planner Kagure Wamunyu has made a reputation for herself as a distinguished determine within the African tech scene. At the moment serving because the CEO and Co-Founding father of Jumba, a building tech start-up simplifying the acquisition and financing of building supplies in Africa, Wamunyu has amassed a formidable array of expertise all through her profession.

Wamunyu holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State College and a Grasp of Science in Metropolis and Regional Planning from the College of Berkeley. As of November 2018, she was additionally registered as a part-time PhD scholar on the College of Oxford, focusing juon Sustainable City Growth.

After returning to Kenya in 2015, Wamunyu served because the Head of Operations at Uber Kenya, primarily based in Nairobi. She was later promoted to the place of Nation Supervisor for Uber in Kenya, changing into the youngest particular person to carry the place on the age of 27. In 2017, she left Uber to affix Bridge Worldwide Academies as Senior Director of Technique. In 2019, she joined Kobo360 as International Head of Operations, the place she was charged with the launch and progress of the corporate throughout Africa.

Wamunyu has been acknowledged for her achievements with a number of awards, together with the Pamela Mboya Award by the Zawadi Africa Schooling Fund in 2013, the Sharon D. Banks Award by the Girls in Transportation Group in 2011, and the Excellent Management Award by Meredith Worldwide Affiliation in 2010. In 2018, she was named one of many “High 40 Beneath 40 Girls in Kenya” by Enterprise Every day Africa.

Along with her in depth expertise and spectacular accomplishments, Wamunyu is undoubtedly one of the influential and promising figures in African tech right this moment.

Wamunyu’s Jumba raises $4.5 million.

Jumba just lately secured $4.5 million in funding to finish it’s seed round. The funding was led by LocalGlobe and Enza Capital and can facilitate the corporate’s enlargement in Kenya and exploration of latest alternatives within the East African market. 

This funding spherical comes solely eight months after Jumba’s preseed spherical, the place the corporate raised $1 million from notable buyers comparable to Foundamental, Seedstars Worldwide Ventures, Logos Ventures, SpeedInvest, First Test Africa, and the Alumni Angel Community.